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Euchre is one of those games that I learn, have a fabulously fun time playing, and then far too quickly forget how to play. I’m sure that I just need to play it more often.
She is truly phenomenal! The combination of toughness and compassion, weariness and unwavering purpose…it makes her truly compelling.
I am not much of a sports nationalist, except when it comes to hockey. All because a certain game 46 years ago was a formative experience of my childhood. I remember it vividly, and probably watch the last 90 seconds at least once a year. A great start to the day! 🏒🇺🇸🥇
What this editorial doesn't say explicitly is that the archbishop (himself an immigrant) of the country's largest Catholic diocese, with a Latine majority and immigrant plurality, and site of ICE/CBP raids, has been conspicuously quiet and weak in his statements. www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
It's a great annual action organized by @douglassday.bsky.social. You can find more information here: douglassday.substack.com
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
👋 Students really enjoyed transcribing!
Groups of people at three tables transcribing on their laptops.
Great to see a core group of people turn out early on a Friday to help transcribe documents related to the Colored Conventions for this year's Douglass Day Transcribe-a-Thon in the Marymount Institute at LMU. #DouglassDay
(photo posted with permission of participants)
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
In European history, Monika Baar has written about guide dogs in interwar Germany (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....) and communist Hungary (doi.org/10.1093/past...).
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
Co-written by my friend and colleague Vanessa Diaz!
What can you do with a history degree?
It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
I don't want a second half of football. I want a second half of Bad Bunny!
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
That half-time show was phenomenal! I'm going to have to watch it again, many more times – not just for the music but for all the social and political critique in there. Just magnificent!
A colleague teaches a Bad Bunny course, and I can't wait to hear her take.
Maybe Vonn’s workout video just days after the ACL tear will even inspire me to be better about doing my PT exercises for the osteoarthritis in my own knees. Tip of the hat and gute Besserung to Lindsey, and congratulations to Breezy Johnson! 3/3
I got up at 2:30 this morning to watch the women’s downhill, b/c Lindsey Vonn skiing competitively after a knee replacement was already amazing and still doing it after rupturing her ACL was awe-inspiring – and it still is, even with her scary crash today! 2/3
There was a time when I rooted for the young upstarts in sports. But these days, I tend to root for the older athletes making a surprising push after their prime or still competing after their peers have retired or athletes coming back from injuries. Which is why… 1/3
My family used to watch the Muppet Show every week when I was young. Watching this reboot was like a reunion with old friends!
I've been singing this to myself all day
"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)
For a good chunk of my life, the Post was my hometown newspaper. I kept my subscription until recently, to support the news side even as the editorial side became so awful. Seeing the destruction of a once great paper (cheers to Katherine Graham) just make me sad. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
"But I believe there are birds
whose songs of love aren't heard
by people who need to care."
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Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis
